Palanpur BJP youth wing general secretary arrested for attack on Rahul Gandhi’s car

GNN | Aug 06, 2017, 10:40 AM IST|

Ahmedabad, Aug 6. Jayesh Darji, General Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Palanpur unit was arrested and the Dhanera city BJP president named as an accused on Saturday in connection with the dastardly attack on Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi's car when he was visiting north Gujarat's flood-affected Banaskantha district on Friday.
The delayed police action came more than 18 hours after a night-long dharna and demonstration by Congress leaders across Gujarat and India.
The Banaskantha police registered an FIR against Darji and arrested him. The FIR also names three others including Dhanera city BJP president Modhsinh Rao and Bhagwanbhai Patel, chairman of Dhanera Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC). It is from the APMC market yard in Dhanera that the wave of protests against Rahul Gandhi started.
The Banaskantha police had through the night refused to lodge a complaint from former Gujarat Pradesh Congress President Arjun Modhwadia and others till a meeting between district police and senior officers decided to lodge a complaint.
However, the Congress demand of to include Section 307 of the Indian Penal Code for attempt to murder was not conceded, the sections that have been invoked provide for imprisonment up to a maximum of three years.
Amongst the sections invoked against the accused persons are Section 332 of the IPC for voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty that provides for jail up to three years, Section 337 for causing hurt by act endangering life or personal safety of others and inviting imprisonment up to six months and Section 427 for mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees or more and this provides for punishment up to two years in jail.